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Contents Foreword Preface 1 Biodiversity - origins status and futureHR Pajni 2 Insect pollinators the conservation link in bio-diversityNeelima R Kumar and Joginder Singh 3 Pollinator diversity beekeeping and sustainable mountain crop productivityNeelam Mattu and VK Mattu 4 Organic beekeeping in the Northwest Himalayas status prospects and development strategiesVK Mattu and Neelam Mattu 5 Pesticide residues in food and their managementBalbir Singh Joia 6 Insect growth regulators a novel approach for insect pest managementGursharan Singh and GK Taggar 7 A century of mosquito biology and public health major advances and collateral pitfallsKaramjit Singh Rai 8 Domestic water source of deadly vector borne diseasesVP Sharma 9 Genomic studies in mosquitoes - an overview a case study and future prospectsS Chaudhry 10 The Indian mosquito taxonomy at crossroads glorious past dwindling present and promising future roadmap with a preliminary catalogue of Indian mosquitoesBK Tyagi 11 Systematics of Indian arctiidae Lepidoptera InsectaJagbir Singh Kirti and Navneet Singh Gill 12 Malaria and vectors in South East Asia Recent scenario major concerns and future perspectivesAshwani Kumar 13 Studies on relative abundance of five species belonging to tribe Aedini Diptera Culicidae in Chandigarh and its adjoining areasSagan Deep Kaur and Monika Airi 14 Some insight into urban Malaria in two ecologically different areas in West Bengal State IndiaSajal Bhattacharya 15 Strategies for the control of ticks and tick-borne parasitic diseases especially bovine tropical theileriosis of cattle in India with emphasis on immunological controlJyotika Kapur-Ghai 16 Role of nuclear energy in insect science applied perspectives and potential in IndiaRK Seth 17 Role of entomotoxicology in crime investigationDevinder Singh and Bhanvi WadhawanFrom the Preface In the animal kingdom insects occupy a prime position by their sheer numbers More than one million species are known and described and many unknown taxa are yet to be discovered High diversity these wonderful creatures present in terms of their shapes sizes colours and functions is truly fascinating An innumerable number of species of insects are harmful agricultural pests and vectors of disease pathogens in animals and humans on the one hand and on the other they are highly useful and economically hugely important as pollinators of crops predators of pests producers of honey silk and lac etc It is amazing how remarkably well organized is the social behaviour of honey bees ants and termites which is rarely encountered in other animals even in the advanced ones It is strikingly interesting how these social insects transmit chemical signals to each other at a remarkably fast speed in their well organized colonies All these attributes of insects make them fascinating subjects for scientific investigation Human interest in insects covers vast spectrum from control of harmful ones to preserve and propagate the economically important and useful species The field of entomology is therefore very interesting and rewarding profession 288 pp. 7 col. plates, 3 b/w plates, figs, tables (illustrator).…